Enthought Tool Suite

The Enthought Tool Suite (ETS) is a collection of open-source components developed by Enthought, our partners and the scientific Python community, which we use every day to construct custom scientific applications. It includes a wide variety of components, including:

• an extensible application framework

• application building blocks

• 2-D and 3-D graphics libraries

• scientific and math libraries

• developer tools

The cornerstone on which these tools rest is the Traits package, which provides the observer pattern in Python; its features include initialization, validation, delegation, notification, and visualization of typed attributes.

Community support for ETS is available on the ets-users group, and on stackoverflow (tag “enthought”) .

Traits: Run-Time Type-Checking and Reactive Programming

Traits provides dataclasses-like type-checked attributes, the ability to watch and react to changes in attribute values, together with (optional) automatic GUI generation.

• Documentation: https://docs.enthought.com/traits

• Source: https://github.com/enthought/traits

TraitsUI: Easy GUI-Building

TraitsUI provides a declarative GUI system built on top of Traits. Reasonable default values allow incremental improvement from an automatically generated GUI through to highly customized behaviour. TraitsUI uses and can interoperate with PyQt, PySide or WxPython.

• Documentation: https://docs.enthought.com/traitsui

• Source: https://github.com/enthought/traitsui

Mayavi: 3D Visualization Application and Library

Mayavi provides a 3D visualization application, a library for 3D plotting within IPython, and a library for embedding 3D visualizations into GUI applications in TraitsUI, PyQt, PySide and WxPython.

• Documentation: https://docs.enthought.com/mayavi/mayavi/

• Source: https://github.com/enthought/mayavi

Chaco: Interactive 2D Plotting Library

Chaco provides an interactive 2D plotting library for GUI applications in TraitsUI, PyQt, PySide and WxPython.

• Documentation: https://docs.enthought.com/chaco

• Source: https://github.com/enthought/chaco

Envisage: Plug-In Application Framework

Envisage is a plug-in application framework for Python inspired by the plug-in framework of the Eclipse IDE.

• Documentation: https://docs.enthought.com/envisage

• Source: https://github.com/enthought/envisage

Pyface: Low Level GUI Components

Pyface provides a traits-aware wrapper around basic GUI components, providing a toolkit-agnostic framework for building application UIs. Pyface uses and can interoperate with PyQt, PySide or WxPython.

• Documentation: https://docs.enthought.com/pyface

• Source: https://github.com/enthought/pyface

Qt Binder: Low Level Trait Bindings for Qt

QtBinder thinly wraps Qt widgets with Traits. Binder widgets can be used inside a Traits UI View using a special Item called Bound. Binder widgets can be bound to model traits using binding expressions.

• Documentation: https://qt-binder.readthedocs.io

• Source: https://github.com/enthought/qt_binder

Traits Futures: Background Processing for TraitsUI

Traits-futures provides a means to fire off a background calculation from a TraitsUI application, and later respond to the result(s) of that calculation, leaving the main UI responsive for user interactions while the background calculation is in progress.

• Documentation: https://docs.enthought.com/traits-futures

• Source: https://github.com/enthought/traits-futures

Apptools: GUI Application Components and Systems

Apptools provides a collection of utilities and systems for building GUI applications, including logging, undo/redo, application-wide selection, macro recording.

• Documentation: https://docs.enthought.com/apptools

• Source: https://github.com/enthought/apptools

Kiva and Enable: 2D Vector Drawing and Interaction

Kiva provides a 2D vector drawing abstraction over a variety of backends, including AGG, Cairo, Quartz, QPainter, PDF and PostScript. Enable adds Traits-based interactivity and event-handling on top of Qt or Wx.

• Documentation: https://docs.enthought.com/enable

• Source: https://github.com/enthought/enable

Codetools: Python Code Analysis and Execution

Codetools provides tools for analyzing data flow through Python code and advanced execution contexts that permit observation of changes to variables as code is executed.

• Documentation: http://docs.enthought.com/codetools

• Source: https://github.com/enthought/codetools

SciMath: Scientific Utilities Including Units

Scimath provides a collection of scientific computation utilities, including scalar and numpy array quantities with physical units.

• Documentation: https://docs.enthought.com/scimath

• Source: https://github.com/enthought/scimath

GraphCanvas: 2D Network Visualization (Under Development)

GraphCanvas provides interactive 2D representations of networks and graphs using Enable and NetworkX.

• Source: https://github.com/enthought/graphcanvas

Other Enthought Open Source

Enthought also offers a number of other open source packages that aren’t part of the wider Enthought Tool Suite, but which will hopefully be of use to the wider community.

ibm2ieee

The ibm2ieee package provides NumPy universal functions (“ufuncs”) for converting IBM single-precision and double-precision hexadecimal floats to the IEEE 754-format floats used by Python and NumPy on almost all current platforms.

• Source: https://github.com/enthought/ibm2ieee

pywin32-ctypes

A reimplementation of pywin32 that is pure python. It uses cffi, if available, otherwise falling back to using ctypes. There is no need to have a compiler available on installation or at runtime.

• Documentation: https://pywin32-ctypes.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

• Source: https://github.com/enthought/pywin32-ctypes

comtypes

comtypes is a lightweight Python COM package, based on the ctypes FFI library.

• Documentation: https://pythonhosted.org/comtypes

• Source: https://github.com/enthought/comtypes